Breaking: Russia says ballistic 'objects' fired in Mediterranean

What does that mean?
Was it incorrect info? Or does that mean they were taken down and thus didn't explode?

Also can anyone say if this has anything to do with the reports that Syria shot down a US jet and also 4 cruise missiles that dropped a few minutes
ago? I found that to be very unlikely, but it was posted minutes before the Russian articles saying 2 ballistic missiles were noted (and possibly
brought down).

When i see something like this on the news, the first place i then check is BAN if there is nothing in BAN then i post it in the BAN forum.

I dont know why other members don't do this, thats what BAN is for.

sorry for my little rant.

Moving on....

this is undoubtedly very interesting, I have just heard a line that Israel have denied that they have launched any Missiles or detected any and other
than these reports there does not seem to be any other kind of hostile action.

I trust Israel's gov about as far as I can throw them. I wouldn't be surprised if they launched a strike, and I wouldn't be surprised if they
launched something that didn't strike just to try to provoke a reaction.

Launch something off target, Syria sees it and launches an attack, Israel uses the retaliation as justification to raise hell.

I mean seriously now, what friggin bonehead would order two ballistic rockets launched in the Med at a time like this with all those opposing forces
there- KNOWING they'd be picked up on radar? If they were headed eastward towards the Syrian coast, it was either US or Israeli
forces no doubt.

Originally posted by aarys
Ok now msm is reporting the same thing. Could it be one of those Israeli subs trying to spark a bit of retaliation.Can someone show a link for the
news on the raptor getting shot down.

The Israeli's have said its not one of theirs and that they did not detect any launch

There is a thread on the F-22 but so far nothing had been confirmed about a F-22 shoot down (where is zap when you need him eh?)

Two ballistic "objects" that Russia said were launched toward the eastern coast of the Mediterranean on Tuesday fell into the sea, state-run
Russian news agency RIA cited a source in Damascus as saying. Earlier, the state-run news agency RIA quoted the Defense Ministry as saying
that Russian radars detected two ballistic "objects" that were fired towards the eastern Mediterranean from the central part of the sea.
The Defense Ministry declined immediate comment to Reuters. A ministry official had earlier criticized the United States for deploying warships
in the Mediterranean close to Syria. Shortly after the Russian Embassy in Syria said there were no signs of a missile attack or
explosions in Damascus, Itar-Tass news agency said. Israel also said on Tuesday it was unaware of any ballistic missile launch being conducted
in the eastern Mediterranean. "We are not aware, at this time, of such an event having occurred," a military spokeswoman in Jerusalem
said after a Russian news agency reported the launch of two ballistic "objects" from the central part of the sea eastward.

The MSCI Emerging Markets Index fell 0.1 percent to 937.31 as of 10:40 a.m. in London, its first loss in four days. Russia’s missile
tracking system detected the launch of two ballistic rockets in the central Mediterranean, heading toward targets in eastern Mediterranean, Russia’s
state-run RIA Novosti reported, citing Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. “The missile spooked the market,” Michael Ganske, head of emerging markets
at Rogge Global Partners Plc in London, said by e-mail. “It’s a good indication of what we have to expect in the coming month: a very nervous
market.”

Well.. there you go. See where those gains are made and buy in because you just got a taste of what will happen when the actual war starts. Whoever
gained on news of these missile launches.. they are going to make crazy gains when the actual war kicks off.

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